Here are the dramatic tweets and policies Tillerson and Mattis reportedly had to hold Trump back from

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and Secretary of Defence Jim Mattis are reportedly working together to hold President Donald Trump back from his most dramatic policies.

The two have reportedly moderated Trump’s position on a handful of potentially explosive issues.

US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and Secretary of Defence Jim Mattis have served under President Donald Trump for just under a year, and in that time they have had to adapt to, and sometimes rein in, a president elected to dramatically upset the status quo.

Tillerson and Mattis “never go to a National Security Council meeting or to the president without being in agreement in advance themselves,” said Sen. Bob Corker, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee chairman, according to the Associated Press. “So they’re always on the same page.”

With a united voice, the former Marine Corps general and Exxon Mobil CEO have managed to steer Trump away from some of his most dramatic, controversial foreign-policy positions and tweets.

“This president’s different, and so everybody had to understand that this is going to be different,” Tillerson told the AP, also saying foreign leaders had adjusted to Trump’s style. “Now that we’re a year into it, I think most of them have become rather accustomed to it.”

But Trump has a flair for the dramatic, and Tillerson and Mattis often end up dealing with the fallout when Trump’s vision yields positions they view as unrealistic. According to the Associated Press, Mattis and Tillerson’s alliance have pushed for the following moderate positions:

Removing Iraq from Trump’s travel ban, as many Iraqis help and work for the US military.